Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

I prefer to be proved wrong than to live in error.

Everyone to his taste.

Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

Hard work is what keeps the ship moving.

Since I was 14. I grew up surfing. That's all I wanted to do.

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

During the Prince's visit, King Timahoe will be referred to only as Timahoe, since it would be inappropriate for the Prince to be outranked by a dog.

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.